Jay Leno files for conservatorship for a 44-year-old woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease

Jay Leno has filed for conservatorship for his wife Mavis, 77, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

The 73-year-old TV legend filed legal documents on Friday to become conservator of Mavis' estate. TMZ reported.

It is unclear when Mavis was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain in which the buildup of abnormal proteins causes nerve cells to die.

The couple has been together for more than forty years after marrying in 1980.

Conservatorship is a legal status in which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of a minor or incapacitated person.

Jay and Mavis are seen in a photo taken on the UCLA campus in Westwood on July 11, 1989

During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Jay said that people should “marry the person you want to be” and that he “married the perfect person.”

The comedian and former TV host was spotted driving around Los Angeles in December in his Tesla Cybertruck, the latest edition to his extensive car collection.

His outing came 11 months after he broke his collarbone in a motorcycle accident – an incident that in turn occurred two months after he was burned out in a motorcycle fire.

On November 12, 2022, Leno and his friend Dave Killackey were working on one of his vintage cars at his LA mansion when his 1907 White Steam Car burst into flames and exploded in his face.

Leno's face then caught fire as Killackey said, “I couldn't see his face, it was a wall of fire.”

After preventing Leno's entire body from going up in flames, Killackey then extinguished the car fire.

In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Jay said he drove to the hospital after the shock incident and then decided to go home “to let his wife know.”

The 73-year-old comedian was spotted driving around the city in his Tesla Cybertruck in December

Temporary skin grafts of 'human cadaver skin' were added to the comedian's body. Dr. Peter Grossman said Leno suffered “relatively severe” burns to “about 7 percent of his body”

Mavis was seen visiting her husband in the hospital car park with a friend after his steam car incident (left). Jay's wife looked somber as she approached the hospital with several bags in her hand (right).

“Then I went to bed, and when I woke up, the pillow had melted into my face,” he said.

Mavis visited her husband while he was in hospital and looked somber as she visited him with his third degree burns.

He then went back to the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital in LA, where he was treated for his intense burns and released ten days later.

Dr. Peter Grossman told NBC News that Leno suffered “relatively severe” burns to “about seven percent of his body,” including his face, chest and hands.

He performed skin grafts on the star, removing his burned skin and replacing it with skin from a skin bank. He noted that 'a great deal of the thickness of the skin was injured.'

In a recent interview with Pierce Morgan, Jay jokingly described the terrifying incident when he told Morgan he had a “brand new ear.”

Just two months after the painful incident, Leno broke his collarbone and two ribs and fractured both kneecaps in a motorcycle accident.

Jay said people should “marry the person you want to be” and that he “married the perfect person.” Pictured: He and Mavis are seen cuddling in 1990

Leno was seriously injured after crashing a vintage motorcycle on January 17, just two months after suffering severe burns when a motorcycle exploded in his face

He was riding a vintage motorcycle in Las Vegas on January 17 when he pulled into a parking lot and was wiped out by a piece of wire stretched across the roadway without a sign across it.

He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: 'Last week I was knocked off my motorcycle. So I have a broken collarbone. I have two broken ribs. I have two cracked kneecaps.

'But I'm fine! I'm fine, I'm working. I'm working this weekend.

“I turned onto a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, a man had strung a wire across the parking lot, but without a flag hanging from it.

“So, you know, I didn't see it until it was too late. All I got was a clothesline and boom, I got knocked off the bike,” Jay said.